Dina Gachman: What brings you joy?

DG: What about working?

DG: Does working bring you joy?

DG: What are three things a man should know how to do?

DG: OK. How does that work as far as career, because you have to go after things, don’t you?

HDS: Huh?

DG: As far as career, you have to go after it at first, so you can’t be still at the beginning.

HDS: It just happens, and I’m not in charge of anything. Nobody is. It all just happens.

DG: [I don’t know about all that, because most people I know bust their asses to get where they want to be. I decide to switch the topic to one of my all-time favorite films and maybe, hopefully, find some common ground and get the man to start spouting off like a soapbox preacher.]

What do you remember most from the Cool Hand Luke shoot?

HDS: I just remember I sang in it. I remember that. [Paul Newman’s] mother was played by a Broadway actress… What was her name?

DG: I can’t remember. I want to say it was Dorothy something?

[I was wrong. Her name was Jo Van Fleet.]

HDS: I can’t remember. I sang to her, and she had me sing this song before her take and it made her cry.

DG: OK, Mr. Stanton. What’s your advice to people out there? What have you learned in all your years that you think is important?

HDS: Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don’t try. I think that’s on Charles Bukowski’s tombstone. Don’t try. You know his work? We were good friends.